Faculty of Law, University of Oxford

Applications are now open for Oxford Legal Assistance! OLA is the law faculty's highly acclaimed pro bono programme for undergraduate students. The 18 trainees in OLA work with people in the local community on various cases, conduct legal research, and learn about human rights/immigration law in the UK and internationally. It has been an absolute privilege to have led OLA this year with Sophie Ewin. Overall, OLA has made such a meaningful contribution to my law degree. We were incredibly lucky to have been supervised and guided by lawyers from Turpin Miller LLP, who were knowledgeable, supportive, and cared so much about their clients. Furthermore, we have been so grateful to have Faculty of Law, University of Oxford's support and for doubling our funding for this & future years, allowing us to have more clinic & research time. Being able to make a difference, albeit small, to someone in your community's life is a key reason why I, as I'm sure many others, applied to study law in the first place. Pursuing this at university has brought me a true sense of fulfilment. To find out more, we are hosting an information evening TONIGHT at 6pm at the St. Cross Building. If you would like to be a part of OLA next year, please send your CV and Cover Letter to us by Thursday, the 2nd of May at 5pm. More details can be found on our website: https://lnkd.in/epcHue3G. Feel free to share this post with any first-year undergraduate law students at Oxford!

Dr Ekaterina Aristova, a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the #BonaveroInstituteofHumanRights, has released a new book ‘Tort Litigation against Transnational Corporations: The Challenge of Jurisdiction in the English Courts’ (OUP 2024). 🎉 Read the full news article on our website ➡ https://bit.ly/4d8YsO9

The 2024 University of Oxford team ranked among the top 4 teams in the world in the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition 2024. This matches the best result that #Oxford has previously achieved in the Competition, last attained in 2015. The team comprised undergraduate students Jessie Cheuk (Magdalen College School, Oxford), Anna Jimenez (Magdalen College School, Oxford), Kartikay Kataria (St Peter's College, University of Oxford), Zahra Lahrie (Brasenose College, University of Oxford), Asirini Parakrama (Magdalen College School, Oxford), and was coached by DPhil student Konstantinos Giorkas (St Anne's College, University of Oxford). You can read the full news article on our website ➡ https://bit.ly/3W8vUxV

Yesterday I had as a "recognised student" from the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford the great honour of giving a presentation on "Chemistry meets Law: Corporate Sustainability Reporting - A Must-Know for Chemists" at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung at the invitation of the JCF Mülheim 😊 I presented my first results, which I worked on at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law. The discussion with the 20 visitors was super exciting and gave me further input for my PhD 💪 Thank you Abdu Bilican for the warm welcome, especially the guided tour of the institute with its Nobel Prize winners Karl Ziegler and Benjamin List. I would be very happy to repeat the event after finish my PhD. I wish the Institute all the best for the future ☺️

Learn all about UK law online from our world-leading for two weeks this summer at the discounted rate of £2,000. Discount expires on 1 May so now is the time to register. Find out more on our website ➡ https://bit.ly/4akzzO3 #summerprogramme #law #introductiontolaw #oxfordlaw

📢 Last few places remaining! Apply for the International #HumanRightsLaw Summer School, run by the #Bonavero Institute of Human Rights in collaboration with the George Washington University Law School! This in-person course is being held in the beautiful surroundings of New College, Oxford, between 2-27 July 2024. Don’t miss out on the chance to be taught Human Rights Law by an internationally recognised faculty! Find out more about the #SummerSchool, as well as how to apply, on our website now➡ https://lnkd.in/eEhXCKy3

This weekend, Sarah Walker and I participated in the KLS-Thomson Reuters National Law Student Triathlon (Kent Law School and Thomson Reuters Case Center (formerly CaseLines)), a competition involving a negotiation, first instance court appearance and a traditional moot. Despite meeting each other in person for the first time the night before the moot, I am very happy to say that we emerged as the overall winning team and placed first in all three components. When I first told my friends I wanted to study law in university, they were confused by my decision. The popular defining characteristic of a lawyer is oratorical prowess, but I used to be a very shy child terrified of public speaking. While I tried my best to overcome this fear through sheer willpower and practice (trying things from busking for charity to MUN), I still felt the ache of anxiety whenever I had to speak about anything of substance, and the pang of regret when I didn't bring across a point as effectively as I wanted. I found this weekend's experience very valuable and I learnt a lot. I have two main takeaways: 1. The traits that I often believe make me a worse advocate can become strengths, if I consciously choose the right contexts and ways to use these traits. For example, my propensity towards taking time to think things through slowly was something I chided myself over as I believed it made me less able to think on my feet. I used to force myself to reply to judicial interventions as quickly as I could just so I would "learn" how to "be faster", which was a predictably suboptimal strategy in moots. Over time, I learnt that there is no one mould that makes a good advocate, and it is what I do with what I am that matters. Once I stopped trying to be a "quicker" (and thus, in my mind a "better") advocate, I was finally able to tap into my sensitivity towards the interventions of the judge and the motivations of the opposing counsel in negotiations - and act on that knowledge accordingly! 2. ⁠Advocacy ultimately can be quite enjoyable (or even fun) and is not something that needs to be stressed over all the time! Thank you very much to Darren Weir for organising such a wonderful weekend, and to Bernard Richmond KC for the advocacy masterclass! I would also like to thank all the judges and my co-competitors - I learnt a lot from everyone and it was a pleasure to meet all of you! I am also grateful to Faculty of Law, University of Oxford for selecting me to take part in this competition, and of course to Sarah Walker for being the best co-counsel and teammate I could ask for.

Register now for the online Introduction to Law Programme to take advantage of the early-bird discount. The discounted rate is £2,000 and it will expire on 1 May, 2024. Find how to apply ➡ https://bit.ly/4akzzO3 #oxforduniversity #lawstudent #summer2024

Yesterday, Oxford’s Border Criminologies, Mobile Info Team and the Border Violence Monitoring Network launched a brand new, open-source interactive database. Detention Landscapes pools evidence from testimonies, open-source research, incident reports, and visual material to unveil the systemic nature of abuse in the facilities used to accommodate and return refugees, migrants and asylum seekers in #Greece. Professor Mary Bosworth, from the University of #Oxford, says the database aims to “bring to light the conditions and abuses happening within secretive detention sites - ultimately so that perpetrators and governments can be held to account.” Find the database here ➡ https://lnkd.in/ecvVgpha

When I travelled to Oxford for my research stay in January 2024 I didn't realise what a wonderful time I would have here. All the more pleased that I have been able to extend my stay as a "recognised students" at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford since yesterday. It is a great honour for me that Professor Dr. Paul Davies, KC (Hon), FBA is in this time my academic advisor. I am looking forward to the exchange about my research topic Sustainability in the connection to companys and the many valuable insights into British company law. Thank you to the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford for all their support in the application process, especially Paul Burns and Geraldine Malloy :) Thank you very much! 😊